A cool site with a fun tool about names.
Michael was very popular in early seventies when I was born. Mick is not in the top 100.
Very interesting.
Michael was very popular in early seventies when I was born. Mick is not in the top 100.
Very interesting.
Almost 200 Britneys per million babies, about 5000 Johns per million babies. About 6000 Michaels. 600 Christinas. 300 Simons. 100 Bernards (why? think of the children!)
Posted by: JMab | December 19, 2006 at 06:55 PM
300 Simon's. Humpf. I blame popular media - all character's named Simon in t.v. and movie's are usually British evil masterminds or a wet sack.
Posted by: Simon H | December 20, 2006 at 08:20 AM
oh dear - type in "Paris". What were these people thinking? "um, who is the most influential, well respected, idological person of our day? . . . . oh yeah Paris Hilton!"
Posted by: Simon H | December 20, 2006 at 08:23 AM
Maybe parents are following the Beckham's lead of naming their children after the place they were conceived in.
Look out for Chislehurst Mabbott!
Posted by: JMab | December 20, 2006 at 05:42 PM
Alyah got zero - so that either means that this thing is very western culture based or we have picked an original name. So, Mr & Mrs Mabbott - is it going to be "Room Number Two Mabbott" or just plain old "Bill" considering that names are out of control. I can see a whole generation of John's, Sue's, Michael's etc - anything but those horrible names that their parents gave them....
Posted by: Simon H | December 21, 2006 at 02:01 AM